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drag coefficient

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noun

Aerodynamics.

  1. the ratio of the drag on a body moving through air to the product of the velocity and surface area of the body.

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When my colleagues and I analyzed the ball in a wind tunnel, we found that the Jabulani was too smooth overall and so had a higher drag coefficient than the 2006 Teamgesit ball.

From Scientific American • Nov. 19, 2022

For a given speed, the higher the drag coefficient is, the more drag an object feels.

From Scientific American • Nov. 19, 2022

The changes enable a new low drag coefficient of 0.29 to make these front-wheel-drive CUVs even more efficient.

From The Verge • Apr. 13, 2022

The drag coefficient can depend upon velocity, but we will assume that it is a constant here.

From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015

Moving through water is powerful, he added, because the resistance, or drag coefficient, is 12 times what it is in air and works on the body in all directions.

From Reuters • Jun. 9, 2014

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